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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lee is still going through its PK3 WL too. A friend just turned down a spot (but only because she got an offer for another nearby charter she wanted at the same time).[/quote]

The K waitlist started moving late August/early September but has stopped (both campuses). As a K parent, now I'm curious if there is more likely to be space next year for 1st given this situation. Some of the criticism worries me, but also my kid already knows how to read and loves math so it might not apply in our situation.[/quote]

I wonder if they'll just reduce the number of classrooms.

The question becomes, do you want your reading and math-doing child to be an outlier in their classroom, academically speaking?  And are you willing to waive this stuff away as a feature of Montessori, or does it say something about the quality of the teaching?  Because there are other Montessori schools that don't have test scores quite so bad.[/quote]

What makes you think that PP’s child won’t be an outlier in their underperforming IB?[/quote]

There's no need to go to an underperforming IB, then.  There are plenty of other neighborhood schools and charters that aren't too hard to get into for lower elementary grades.

Being an outlier in Montessori can be great when you're one of the youngest kids in the classroom, but to be an academically advanced 3rd grader in a room of mostly below grade level 1st and 2nd graders is... well, you'd have to really really love Montessori to be okay with that.[/quote]

PP here and right now we are at our "underperforming IB." I don't really consider it underperforming -- it serves a very high percentage of FARMS kids and they do a phenomenal job. But they have a ton of attrition before the upper grades that leaves mostly below-grade level kids in the PARCC grades. We're part of a prisoner's dilemma because we love the school and want to stay but not if half my child's classmates are going to decamp for other schools in the next three years (which they almost certainly will, just like us).

Lee is not our first choice but it is something we are looking at. We don't mind "supplementing" (or whatever people want to call it, I don't care) as much as others seem to. I think probably because our child started in DCPS shortly after Covid and I feel like at this point we're just used to doing a lot more than we ever expected we'd need to do in order to get our kid educated. The main reason she knows how to read is because I taught her how.[/quote]

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